The play Everyman is a perfect representation of Renaissance public literature. The anonymous author reveals through the morality play that "everyone" should be ready to be judged at any time because "suddenly, [death] comes." (Scene 1, line 81) This, like all allegorical works of this period, was constructed under the direction of the Roman Catholic Church to strike fear into the hearts of men and, in doing so, have power over them. The Church has succeeded in censoring all works and designing them according to their purpose. The structure of literary works of the Renaissance period was designed for easy understanding for the masses. The average Renaissance man could not read and received no adequate education. For ease of interpretation, characters in plays and oral histories were named allegorically after what they symbolized. For example, in Everyman, the main character's name is "Everyman", so that every peasant watching can understand that the main character represented every man, woman and child on Earth, especially his own person. Death is also aptly named, as are Everyman's friend "Fellowship", his family, "Kin" and "Cousin", as well as "Goods Worldly" and "Good Deeds". This same technique is used in Pilgrim's Progress to show unequivocally that the story is addressed to the reader as a moral judgment and not as a work of interpretation. This ensures that each listener will not miss the moral lesson they are supposed to understand. Everyman is specifically designed to make each listener feel guilt as well as fear. The fact that "everyone" discovers that his devotion to "material goods" only hurts his accounts leads him to declare: "I know I deserve to be blamed... in the middle of a paper. .. opens its way. in hell, and were not able to help him or did not even want to help him. He had no one to accompany him, no real element to brave judgment with him. His knowledge of "good deeds" had been weakened by his mistreatment, but even so. she could barely stand, she offered to be with him and speak for him. These allegorical references solidified in the public imagination that they must take the necessary steps to ensure their salvation, to go to heaven rather than hell. The best way to do this is to give away one's material possessions and do good deeds, because this is the only thing one can carry with oneself until the judgment. In this way, the anonymous author formulates his final thought: Everyone is equal and therefore sinner. and must repent; he must give of himself without thinking of himself, what better way than to give everything to the Church.?